Ok just for those of you that didn´t read the full post from Rem here it comes. Its public info btw. Wall of text incoming.
Nov 10 - 2022
An Announcement
With a still heavy heart, we have to announce that we will be postponing the Gym DLC.
So for anyone out of the loop, the beta test for the Gym DLC began two days ago with much personal excitement to finally have people see what we've been developing and working on for awhile, followed by a long, long night of fixing bugs that prevented people from seeing the content. However, that high of anticipation and excitement soon ended the next few days once the early reports of feedback started arriving.
So, we will now be delaying the release of the Gym DLC.
I have a lot of things to say on the matter. Frankly, it's demoralizing. As the director, it is my responsibility to shape and design it. And because of my decisions, the great art drawn by Sachinama and the wonderful voicework by the talented SilkyMilk and Tezuka Ryouko gets dragged down. It's not a pleasant feeling for sure.
My vision of the Gym Trainer side job is of something both design-wise and visually different from the rest of game as a fanservice. Instead of gangbangs, it's one-on-one in the style mimicking that of first person VR porn. And unlike the rest of the game, this side job is where Karryn can be completely in control of the situation, doing as she likes to these men as they try to work out.
As a creative person, as a creator, I always want to be creating something different, something new, something fresh. When I was first designing Karryn's Prison, I told Sachinama that I don't want to create a Meltys Quest 2, but something completely different design-wise. I extremely dislike retrending the same ground, doing the same things and not taking any risks.
However, this is where vision as the creator clashed with the expectations of fans. What is the point of a fanservice DLC if no fan actually wants or likes it? Who is happy from a fanservice that services no fans?
So... with an amount of sadness that I can barely articulate, we're going to delay the release of the Gym DLC.
To tell you all the truth, I've known about this for almost a month now but Sachinama is actually scheduled to get the ICL eye surgery on the 15th of this month. Both Sachinama and I on here, SubscribeStar, and on Ci-en, have talked about eye surgery stuff for awhile back before. For those not in the loop or have long forgotten, I got LASIK eye surgery around July, and following my successful surgery, Sachinama went to get his eyes checked. During that checkout, it was discovered that Sachinama had holes in his eyes, a major holy shit moment because Sachinama was at risk of being blind anytime and the doctors immediately performed laser surgery to seal the hole for one of his eyes, and then a week later performed laser surgery for his other eye. After a painful and long, but ultimately safe recovery, Sachinama went back to the doctor, did another examination, and got authorized to do ICL eye surgery on 11/15.
So we have been crunching hard this past month to finish the DLC in time to release it so Sachinama can focus on the ICL surgery and the recovery process. The DLC was supposed to be a sort of a sending off party for Sachinama while he gets the surgery and then sit in bed and listen to the fan feedback for the DLC with a smile on his face while recovering.
Unfortunately... that scenario won't come to be. Sachinama will still be getting the ICL eye surgery as scheduled, he went through two painful and scary hole-sealing laser surgeries and STILL want to get the ICL eye surgery to get rid of his glasses after all. However, it's estimated that the recovery process for ICL is much longer than my LASIK, so.......
So yeah, there's no estimated date on when Gym DLC will be released right now, it may even be delayed until 2023. There's a lot to think about, a lot to process, for me personally.
I just feel really sorry mainly. I feel sorry for Sachinama. I feel sorry for letting down our fans. Words can hardly truly express what I'm feeling right now.
I'm just going to end this post with that Karryn's Prison has been updated to v.1.1.0 on Steam, and will soon be updated to v.1.1.0 on DLsite. The update includes everything we've worked on outside of the Gym Trainer side job content, and the voices meant for the DLC.
